“Under California law starting Jan. 1, children must use car seats until they are 8 years old or 4-feet-9 inches tall, up from the current requirement of 6 years or 60 pounds.”
It’s kind of weird, right? Instead of making regular car seats that are safe for people who are 4 feet and taller, regulators decide that it’s safer to mandate the use of strap-on car seats for people up to 4’ 9", which are meant to be attached to regular car seats. This cannot possibly be the optimal solution.
Ca passed a law that goes into effect now where plastic bags are no longer legal in San Jose which is unbelievably annoying. You can bring a bag into the store if you buy something, but they charge you .25 for a "reusable" plastic bag or a paper bag. My guess is it costs about .05 for these bags so these companies basically are able to not only profit off of the bags, but completely eliminate the elastic cost structure of the bag. Takes forever to get out of the store as well. Makes me rage…
Is the charge for the plastic bags not a tax? So the store itself shouldn’t profit from it I would have thought. It’s an environmental measure to prevent plastic ending up in rivers/streams and littering the countryside. I think that’s a good idea personally. I’m not sure why the tax would apply to paper bags though. Are they not biodegradable? I would have thought the aim of this measure would be to encourage shoppers away from plastic to paper.